Project Background
An effective Bicycle Master Plan for the City of Milwaukee will:
- Inventory and Evaluate the existing Bikeway Network - both on and off street
- Enhance and Expand the City's Bikeway Network
- Recommend "State-of-the-Art" Bicycle Facilities suited for use in Milwaukee
- Recommend Bicycle Parking and other end-of-trip facilities such as change facilities, lockers and showers
- Improve Connectivity, including bicycle Access to Transit and key destinations
- Suggest updates to the Bikeway Network Map
- Recommend Education and Outreach strategies to reach both cyclists and motorists
- Recommend Health and Wellness marketing strategies
- Enhance safety through detailed collision analysis and infrastructure and law enforcement countermeasures
- Analyze Spending, both current and recommend levels for bicycle facilities, programs and maintenance
- Serve the needs of Milwaukee's diverse population and neighborhoods
The Plan will be completed by The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin with assistance from Alta Planning + Design, a national recognized non-motorized transportation planning and implementation firm.
The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin is a statewide, membership-based, non-profit bicycle education and advocacy organization. We strive to make Wisconsin a better place to bicycle by empowering citizens to build communities where bicyclists are safe to ride the roads and trails. We educate decision makers, motorists and bicyclists about the transportation planning and safety issues, as well as the environmental, health and economic benefits of bicycling. We promote bicycling as an integral part of a balanced transportation system, and a prosperous economy.
We have been working in Milwaukee for about a decade and have aided to the amount of bicycling that is now taking place here in the city. We know all the issues that Milwaukee faces when it comes to bicycling because our Milwaukee office staff members bicycle daily throughout the city, we practice what we work for!